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[ad_1] Launched in 1997, NASA's Cassini mission was designed to orbit Saturn and study the rings, the frozen moons and the global composition of the planet. During his 13 years in circles, he has also discovered bizarre storms at the North Pole of the planet, mini-moons in orbit around the rings and ice-water plumes spitting … Read more

[ad_1] NASA's internal emails reveal that experts have detected an asteroid the size of a football field that is about to miss the Earth this summer. In emails obtained by BuzzFeed News via a Freedom of Information Act request, NASA officials wondered how the asteroid, named "2019 OK," had escaped detection until An observatory in … Read more

[ad_1] The Chandrayaan-2 lunar lander in India made a hard landing on September 7, less than five months after the crash of the Israeli lander Beresheet in the moon. A composite image of the Beresheet crash site, highlighting recent surface changes. The NASA; Goddard Space Flight Center; Arizona State Univ. Both impacts are the most … Read more

[ad_1] A new explosive study shows that surface meltwater causes a sudden and rapid acceleration of glacier flow to the sea – a harbinger of a rapid rise in sea level. According to a new study published in Nature Communications, this discovery is the first time scientists have established a correlation between surface melting and … Read more

[ad_1] According to reports that the Russians are going to keep secret the cause of an air leak discovered at the International Space Station in 2018, NASA's administrator, Jim Bridenstine, has pledged to be safe. personally interview with the head of the Russian Space Agency. "They did not say anything to me," Bridenstine said during … Read more

[ad_1] The Chinese lunar lander Yutu-2 has just returned new images of a strange substance found near a small crater on the other side of the moon. Last month, the team behind the lunar rover claimed to have found a "mysterious colored substance", as described in the rover's journal, claiming that the shape and color … Read more

[ad_1] The Russian space company Roscosmos has discovered the causes of a "hole" in the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft, but will not disclose the information, said Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin. "It was in the household compartment [of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft]he has already burned a long time ago when the ship was descending. We took all … Read more

[ad_1] In the most extreme regions of the universe, galaxies are being killed. Their star formation is disappearing and astronomers want to know why. Canada's first major project on one of the largest telescopes in the world is hoping to do just that. The new program, called the Survey of the Environment of the Virgin … Read more

[ad_1] This story is part of Road Trip 2019, profiles of troublemakers and pioneers who conceive our future. It's a hot summer day, full of moisture, when Dr. Serena Auñón-Chancellor arrives to meet me at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston. Dressed in a royal blue jumpsuit adorned with zipper pockets and insignia … Read more